Package for incandescent mantles.



' PATENTED DEG.8,1903. I J. I. ROBIN; PACKAGE FOR INGANDBSGENT MANTLES;

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 1902.

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rrnn ST Patented December 8, 1903.

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JACOB I. ROBIN, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,645, dated December1903- Application filed May'26.1902- Serial No. 109,060. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB I. ROBIN, a citinew and useful ImprovementinPackagesfor Incandescent Man tles, of which the following is aspecification. 7

My improvement relates to the packaging of incandescent mantles of thekind commonly known as Welsbach mantles. These mantles are highlyfrangible, and therefore it is desirable to avoid as far as possible thenecessity for touching them.

My improvement consists in a package having a body made of paper-boardor similar material and preferably cylindric in form, with transparentends made, preferably, of glass and inserted in the body insuch manneras to afford strength to the latter, while affording opportunity fordealers and purchasers of incandescent mantles to inspect same at theends without opening the package.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the topand the body of a package embodying my improvement. Fig;

2 is a perspective view representing the bottom and the body of thesame. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

A designates the body of the package. It is shownas cylindric in form.Preferably it will be made of paper-board; but it may be made of anysimilar material.

' The ends B B of the package'are made of transparent material andpreferably of glass. As here shown, the glass ends B B rest against theends of the cylindric body A, and the latter is provided at itsextremities with flanges a. ad, which are bent over the edge portions ofthe glass ends BB These flanges a a may be made of separate pieces ofpaperboard or similar material secured by adhesive substance to the bodyand bent over the glass ends B B As the flanges are secured firmly tothe body and the glass ends have a bearing inside the flanges, thelatter afford strength to the body.

Across the body, near one end, is a support 0, (here shown as made of astring,) which is threaded through a loop 01, formed upon anincandescent mantle D, which is contained in the package.

By my improvement not only is a strong package produced, but thispackage affords opportunity for inspection of the mantle con- 'tained inthe package without the necessity for opening the package or touchingthe mantle.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. A package for an incandescent mantle, consisting of a cylindricalbody made of paper-board or similar non-brittle material and havingdetachable transparent ends, annular flanges fitting over the ends ofthe box and engaging the transparent ends to secure them to the box, andmeans for attaching the mantle to the interior of and sustaining it inposition in the package, longitudinally between the transparent ends,for substantially the purposes set forth.

2. A package for an incandescent mantle, consisting of a body made ofpaper-board or similar material and having transparent ends, flangesengaging the ends and attached to the box for securing said ends inposition, and a support connected with the mantle and engaged by one ofthe flanges for sustaining the mantle within the box.

3. A package for an incandescentmantle, consisting of a body made ofpaper-board or similar material, transparent ends therefor, flangessecuring said ends to the body and a flexible support connected with themantle and secured to the body by one of the flanges.

4. A package for an incandescent mantle consisting of abody made ofpaper-board or similar material and having transparent ends, a flexiblesupport for sustaining the mantle relatively to the box and a flangeengaging JACOB I. ROBIN.

Witnesses:

R. H. E. STARR, HENRY O. GARRE'rsoN.

